This is about completed suicides that we're counting, not people who have suicidal ideation. In terms of the suicide statistics, with completed suicides, it's done through data linkage with Statistics Canada. What we do is we get the record for as far back as we can go for everyone who was released from the Canadian Armed Forces, and we link that with the Statistics Canada mortality database, which is contributed to by the provinces and two territories. We use the same standard of measuring mortality, including suicide, that we would for all other Canadians. In fact, it's a very strong and reliable methodology where we don't actually have to find people.
On December 13th, 2016. See this statement in context.